The War on Drugs never stopped. Even in the face to decriminalization and the re-appreciation of the therapeutic and clinical effects of psychedelics, even the normalization of them in popular consiousness is a war tactic. Because the war has alreeady been lost.

We are now allowed only to talk about psychedelics, to research them, to wear them as fashion, as cultural aesthetics or as badges of honour. We are allowed to engage with them only under the strictest clinical conditions. And we are even allowed to to engage with them in their non-psychedelic forms.

But we are not allowed to simply do them, to share them, to share wisdom and knowledge of their use other than "harm-reduction", which should give as the hint that we have long lost the culture war of psychedelics, since in the spotlight, they are a harm to be reduced.

We are not allowed to manufacture them, and enter into economic relationships that involve them, even if they are grassroots, uncriminal and community oriented.

We are not allowed to explore their potentials.

But I imagine, the emergence of countercultural bubbles that have managed to acquire tools for self-defense against the watchfull and supressive eyes of the state and a distance from the world of cartels, where production, managing, regulation and use is happening all in the same closed system, in a decentralized and bottom up fashion and with infrastructures to sustain it. We need to create cultural hedgehogs, peacefull creatures that are still able to defend themselves because they got the right defenses. That's how we can explore them freely and intentionally.

And even go beyond the substance, into the irreplaceable quality of the experience in itself. Understand the plurality of non-chemical media for the induction of psychedelic experience, to explore wild and incredibly complex cocktails combinations of different elements and different experiences. To approach the substance as only a mere element of a braoder tapestry, not as an end in itself, neither as psychedelic in itself. It is inside the rail of spikes that we can have the freedom and safety to do that.